Category: Politics

Until both sides realise that incidents like this will continue until there is a peace deal, this situation is unavoidable. Israel continues to believe that a country with a population of 5 million can use military force to suppress 100m plus around its borders.

The only solution is to stop the settlements, withdraw to the pre 1967 borders, and make peace with the whole of the Arab world. Then have this supported by a million plus troops from UN peace keepers paid for largely by petro dollars, and allow Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank) to develop peacefully into a low cost economic haven right in the middle of the middle eastern powers.

Heaven forbid, Israel may well get on with their neighbours very well, share a common prosperity, even eventually participate in a middel eastern common market. The region could then become a force for good in the world rather than be the reason for most of the world’s conflicts between islam and the West.

Very interesting article. Why does Israel seemingly never understand that people will always eventually find a way around repression. If you repress them for long enough, and often enough, you will never get their cooperation and support. Repressing the people of Gaza is causing the opposite effect to what they presumably want. As the article points out, it is not only funding Hamas, but it is allowing them to rebuild the Gaza in their own image which will make it very difficult to un-wind. Without the cover of the blockade, and from it the thriving Hamas controlled black-market, this would not be possible. They are driving the Gazans into the hands of Hamas by their own actions – where else can they go?